What we need now is a decent video server that can take a custom RSS feed and be served in the home (maybe externally). I have tried plugins for both plex and Windows Media server and haven't found anything that works perfectly yet.

What we need now is a decent video server that can take a custom RSS feed and be served in the home (maybe externally). I have tried plugins for both plex and Windows Media server and haven't found anything that works perfectly yet.

Serviio should read the RSS feed and launch ffmpeg to check each video in the feed. You should probably turn on transcoding so the video is converted in to the proper format for your devices. It might take a while before the program actually reads the RSS feed. You won't be able to see the videos on your device until the RSS feed and ffmpeg process has been preformed.

Quick question - I finally was able to get this working (for the most part). Anyway, is it true that this does not work on copyrighted video? It seems to not play any copyrighted material but will play all of the ones that are not. Is this true or am I missing something?

Yes. It will not play anything that you would not be able to transfer to your computer. This is using the capabilities of the TIVO HME system. The only way to watch copy-protected videos is via true streaming between Tivo Premieres or in your home network with the Tivo Stream.

The set-up acts like a video "stream", but this is really just transferring and displaying the video on to non-Tivo peripherals, and transfers aren't permitted with copy-protected shows.

I found this thread & tried out the software last night. It seems to be working perfectly from VLC. I was able to have VLC view the RSS feed, then click on an entry & the video starts up right away! This seems like a great idea, rather than waiting for the whole video to transfer -- you can start viewing it right away. Trick play is obviously not working, as is to be expected.

I also tried viewing a show on my iphone. Mobile safari doesn't know how to deal with RSS feeds, so that didn't work. Instead I sent an e-mail to myself with the direct URL to a show. I was then able to use the app, oplayer lite, to view a show!! But, sound was not working, which I think is due to an oplayer bug.

I found this thread & tried out the software last night. It seems to be working perfectly from VLC. I was able to have VLC view the RSS feed, then click on an entry & the video starts up right away! This seems like a great idea, rather than waiting for the whole video to transfer -- you can start viewing it right away. Trick play is obviously not working, as is to be expected.

I also tried viewing a show on my iphone. Mobile safari doesn't know how to deal with RSS feeds, so that didn't work. Instead I sent an e-mail to myself with the direct URL to a show. I was then able to use the app, oplayer lite, to view a show!! But, sound was not working, which I think is due to an oplayer bug.

I just found it yesterday as well and spent a few hours to get it up and running. Very cool and great work was done on it. Unfortunately it seems like 80% of my shows are copyrighted and thus can't be transferred. So I probably won't spend anymore time on it cause of that fact. But again, great work by all involved.

I just found it yesterday as well and spent a few hours to get it up and running. Very cool and great work was done on it. Unfortunately it seems like 80% of my shows are copyrighted and thus can't be transferred. So I probably won't spend anymore time on it cause of that fact. But again, great work by all involved.

Let me guess, Time Warner Cable? I feel you pain. Only broadcast stations (CBS, NBC, etc.) are viewable for me.

I think a lot of people would find this useful, but it's been flying under the radar for a while. I see two drawbacks to the method: copy-protection, and lack of FF/REW. Perhaps a solution to FF/REW could be developed, but copy-protection circumvention is a non-starter. Still, Allanon has developed a relatively easy to implement MRV method that doesn't require another Tivo box.

I was speaking some what generally, but I believe he's had success using Serviio Media Server in conjunction with the python script. Serviio can deliver the video to a number of Smart TV's as well as PS3's, Xbox 360's, etc. See here: http://www.serviio.org/features.

There is some discussion of how to set that up within this thread as well.

I was speaking some what generally, but I believe he's had success using Serviio Media Server in conjunction with the python script. Serviio can deliver the video to a number of Smart TV's as well as PS3's, Xbox 360's, etc. See here: http://www.serviio.org/features.

There is some discussion of how to set that up within this thread as well.

Yes, as I mentioned above, getting around the copy-protection is not possible. We just have to wait for the Tivo Mini (which will do true streaming) and hope the pricing is reasonable, or have multiple Premiere boxes to stream the copy-protected stuff.

I first developed this program so I could instantly watch TiVo videos on my Sony smart TV. I knew FF/REW and copy protected files was not going to be possible. But after thinking about the FF/REW problem there is probably a solution, it would require decoding the TiVo file to a file on disk then feeding that file to the media server. The downside is you will need a few GB of free space on your hard drive. I could probably add this feature as an option.

I also would like to add a HTML webpage that will have links to the videos. This will make it easier to play in a browser. And I've also thought about adding my own UPNP server which would eliminate the need for a separate media server. But these are just things I'd like to do and I'm making no promises on them ever being added.

If you have any ideas for this program please post them.

Also, I will probably start a new thread on this forum for this program. It will have a description and documentation as the first post and I can just keep updating that post with changes opposed to a new version in each post I make.

As a matter of fact I was not running it where tivodecode was, so thanks for pointing that out.

However, even when running it within the tivodecode directory, I get the identical error.

Attached is a new version that attaches the current directory path to the front of tivodecode in the popen() call. It also prints out the command that is being called which might help debug the problem. Make sure tivodecode is in the same folder as Tivo Proxy Server before running. If you get an error then please post the output so I can see the command that is being called.

This version also adds a HTML webpage that has links and descriptions for the videos. I have VLC as my default player and I can just click on the link and have the video play in the web browser. To use just enter the following in to a web browser:

Apparently on a mac the path is not being set to the program's path. You corrected the path and tivodecode must have been launched. What I don't know is if tivodecode or python is putting the "no longer supported" message. Can you try running tivodecode on a .tivo file from a command promp without my program? I want to see if tivodecode prints that message. If it does then you might need a different version that supports your OS.